I have X and the console installed with a few basic packages. I'm running out of space and I think I installed stuff that I don't really need after all.

1) How do I browse through and figure out what to keep and what to get rid of? "winfile" equivalent or at least a SMALL console FTP server so that I can use another machine to do my dirty work?

2) I also want to know how much space I have left on my hard drive. In DOS dir included total for the directory, and free space. Chkdsk told me how much Memory & Drive - free and used space. I guess I'm looking for similar functions.

3) What is a .tar file?

Thanks.

Try mc (Midnight Commander) ... a console Norton
clone, that will also allow you to gather sizes for
directories :)

man -k space | grep disk

Try what it reports ;)

man tar


Thanks.[/QUOTE]
Pleasure :)
Tink

He's messing with you.

Mc is ok.

Disk space:

'df -h' should do it.

tar is an archive format, like zip or rar.

He's not :) ... he's trying to encourage
to try out local means of information
retrieval ;)

on my system returns df and
gdiskfree ...


Cheers,
Tink

lol, that too.

TRFM is always an optional answer.

mc is doing everything I needed. Now I just have to figure out what I can whittle away.